{"id":328872,"date":"2020-11-23T05:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T05:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328872"},"modified":"2020-11-23T05:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T05:07:36","slug":"indian-railways-to-resume-services-in-punjab-from-today-piyush-goyal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/indian-railways-to-resume-services-in-punjab-from-today-piyush-goyal\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways to resume services in Punjab from today: Piyush Goyal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308472 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/piyush-goyal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/piyush-goyal.jpg 627w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/piyush-goyal-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/>Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said that the Indian Railways is going to begin services from and through Punjab as the farmer unions have announced lifting of blockades from Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;After the postponement of the farmer movement on railway tracks and stations in Punjab from November 23, Indian Railways is going to start rail services from and through Punjab,&#8221; Piyush Goyal said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Passengers, farmers, and industries will be benefited by the removal of the deadlock in train operations,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On November 21, the Punjab farmers\u2019 union, protesting against the Centre\u2019s controversial farm laws, decided to allow all goods and passenger trains to pass through the state from today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Farmers in Punjab have been protesting against the three farm laws since they were passed by the Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said that the Indian Railways is going to begin services from and through Punjab as the farmer unions have announced lifting of blockades from Monday. &#8220;After the postponement of the farmer movement on railway tracks and stations in Punjab from November 23, Indian Railways is going to start rail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[58,3820,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328873,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328872\/revisions\/328873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}